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Arbor, The

A conceptually fascinating, experimental, biographical documentary that uses "verbatim theater" to pay homage to the hard-drinking English playwright Andrea Dunbar, who tragically died at age 29 of a brain hemorrhage after writing three plays, and consists of archival film footage, reenactments of her play The Arbor that tells about her difficult childhood growing up in West Yorkshire, and interviews in which actors lip-synched the voices of Andrea, her mother (Kate Rutter) and father (Danny Webb), her brothers Andrew (Matthew McNulty) and David (Jonathan Jaynes) Dunbar, her sisters Pamela (Kathryn Pogson) and Kathy (Lizzie Roper), her daughters Lisa Thomson (Christine Bottomley) and Lorraine (Manjinder Virk) Dunbar, and theater director Max Stafford-Clark.
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